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Today's Best Dressed Reader: Collette Gives Gray A Stylish Lift

'Tis the season for layering, dolls, and if you haven't quite mastered the fine art yet, then you've got a lot to learn from Collette, AKA Today's Best Dressed Reader, who makes monochrome gray look like a stroke of styling genius.

"I'm addicted to layering!!" Collette writes us from her home state, Michigan. "This outfit shows several single pieces that when combined together, present a really cute, well put together outfit." And how! Here's why it's working for us: She stuck with one simple color palette (gray and black) to keep things from looking too busy or muddled; she smartly cinched her waist with a belt to avoid looking too bulky--a common side effect of layering; and she lets just enough of each piece show (a couple of inches of sock here, a flash of turtleneck there) that it doesn't look like she raided Grandma's closet and just kept piling it on. We're impressed! So impressed, in fact, that we're dying to copy her look: